Welcome to the second annual Internet Basketball Awards (IBBA). During his recent appearance on the B.S. Report podcast, Jonah Keri discussed with host Bill Simmons how much better informed fans are now than ever before. With a wealth of statistics available to us, NBA League Pass bringing every game to our living room and a thriving blogosphere to help break down stories from every angle, there's never been a better time to be a thinking fan.

Over a week's time, fans voted on Basketball Prospectus for all seven major awards (including Executive of the Year, which is chosen by GMs and not the media) and the All-NBA, All-Defensive and All-Rookie Teams. Thanks to the promotion by several friends on Twitter and elsewhere, we received 826 ballots, nearly doubling last year's total. Thanks to all of you who voted. This year was especially interesting because of the uncertainty about the biggest award of all, where I figured we might disagree with the presumptive choice. Was that the case? Let's see.

Despite the popularity of Dwight Howard's candidacy among statistical analysts--and Rose's unpopularity, a cynic might note--Rose still ended up taking a close vote. More people had Howard in their first two spots than Rose, but the former's 80-vote advantage in first-place selections proved too much to overcome. There were some interesting results a little lower down the ballot. I did not expect Chris Paul to finish so far out of the running, especially since much of the voting took place after Paul's thrilling Game One against the Los Angeles Lakers. Where's the CP3 love?

Easily the biggest fait accompli of these awards, as Griffin earned a remarkable 95.6 percent of all first-place votes and appeared on all but two ballots. We're not sure if those two voters were confused or making a point. What surprises me here is that my second-place selection, Detroit's Greg Monroe, finished out of the medals. John Wall has more long-term potential, surely, but it's difficult to argue that he was a better player than Monroe this season.

The lone repeat winner of an award this year is Howard, the only Defensive Player of the Year the IBBAs have ever known. His sweep was nearly as dominant as Griffin's; nobody else was even mentioned on as many ballots as Howard got first-place votes. I'm surprised that Andrew Bogut, my second-place pick, finished a relatively distant sixth. As with the media vote, fans tend to be more enamored of the defensive value of perimeter players than the numbers.

This voting generally mirrored that of the media, with the notable exception of James Harden. Harden was third here and got plenty of first-place votes, but finished just seventh in the real voting. I'm going to have to score this one for the fans, as Harden was statistically one of the league's most productive reserves.

So ... the actual winner of this award, Kevin Love, showed up only as a write-in option on the IBBA ballot. Blame that on me. I considered Love, but felt his "improvement" was largely a matter of playing time and role and didn't have a good feel for how the actual voting would go. In fairness to Love, he certainly developed his game with the addition of a three-point shot and improvement as a go-to scorer, but his Most Improved Player award is still largely a testament to the fact that people still don't trust per-minute statistics. Love got his name written in enough times to finish ahead of several players who were actually listed, but Rose--whose improvement was much clearer across the board--ends up winning a second IBBA. (Lucky him!)

There were a ton of obvious awards this year, and Coach of the Year was another in the list. It's hard to argue with Thibodeau's work as a rookie head coach, and he was the runaway selection. Voting was closer thereafter, with George Karl just edging out Gregg Popovich for second to mirror my picks.

2010-11 IBBA Executive of the Year: Pat Riley, Miami

Ultimately, fans determined the creation of the Big Three was more significant than the smaller but equally effective moves made by the Chicago Bulls' braintrust of Gar Forman and John Paxson. Voting was close throughout, but Riley edged out Forman and Paxson by 22 votes. The other two executives to get significant support were last year's winner, Sam Presti of Oklahoma City, and rookie GM Masai Ujiri. By the way, three executives failed to register a single vote: Detroit's Joe Dumars, Neil Olshey of the L.A. Clippers and Orlando's maligned Otis Smith.

No huge surprises here as the voting broke down nicely into three teams that would make sense together, other than a surplus of power forwards and no small forwards on either the Second or Third teams. Boston was the most snubbed team here, with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo all right on the bubble. The closest spot up for grabs was the second forward on the First Team; Dirk Nowitzki got more First Team nods than Kevin Durant, but Durant was on far more Second Teams, giving him the edge.

So ... due to user error, I lost the vote totals for the All-Defensive Teams. I did have everything in order, so those are the correct teams and the players also receiving votes are listed as they finished, but you can't tell the actual points. Kyle Lowry got snubbed here, in my opinion. He was next up in the voting, but was the only player from my All-D First Team not to make either unit in the IBBAs. I think the open-ended voting format probably tends to benefit big names, who are more familiar.

No big surprises here. The fans liked DeMarcus Cousins' rookie season a bit more than I did, but there's a clear break between the two teams and only one other player (Washington's Jordan Crawford) had at least 100 points.